When Irish tongues are talking (in Irish, of course!) scientists from a California university will be watching. Researchers at the University of California in Santa Cruz just received a $260,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how Irish speakers use their tongues in speech. Despi...

Between 50-90% of the languages being spoken today may very well be extinct by 2100. Some will be extinct much sooner than that-we lose one language every two weeks! The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages seeks to preserve endangered languages both online and in the communities they c...

Our CEO, Richard Brooks was recently interviewed by Caroline Scott-Thomas for foodnavigator.com. They discuss the challenges faced by food retailers when implementing the new FIC regulations and how quality translation is key to delivering information that meets the requirements set out in the leg...

Creepy but cool: Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have inserted the “human language gene” into mice. The result: Okay, not really. But the gene-spliced mice were able to navigate certain types of mazes faster than their un-enhanced counterparts. So what does this...

You can give a toast in Klingon. You can read poetry in Sindarin. What fantasy language should you learn next? Dothraki, of course! Thanks to a new online course, Game of Thrones fans can now follow in Daenerys’ footsteps by learning to speak the language of the Dothraki horse lords. The Doth...

Translating Retail One of the biggest retail events of the year takes place in Paris on the 29th September – 01 October 2014, it is the World Retail Congress. This year the theme is “Retailing in a disrupted world”. As retail faces new challenges with new technology “disrupting” the old wa...

According my calendar of offbeat holidays, the 13th of September is Defy Superstition Day. I’d never heard of this holiday before and I’m not sure who founded it, but it’s supposed to be a day “to break those superstitious beliefs that you have been living with most, or all, ...

What a massive heart! The team at K International show yet another way of helping to communicate care in the local community. Their contribution to the MK Foodbank during Harvest Festival will see many families being fed over the coming weeks. Many thanks to the K International family The Food...

Translation apps and machine translation tools like Google Translate are all the rage, but how is this affecting the translation industry? I’m sure everyone has a war story or two about potential clients who think they can get away with using Google Translate, but even with the availability of...

The British Army is getting serious about foreign languages. According to The Telegraph, starting in 2018 soldiers will need at least some foreign language training if they wish to be promoted above the rank of Captain. The move is meant to help improve cultural awareness and make it easier for the...